George Frampton
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Sir George Frampton (1860-1928) was a notable British sculptor and leading member of the New Sculpture movement.
Frampton, the London-born son of a stone mason, began his working life in an architect's office before studying under William Silver Frith at the Lambeth School of Art. He went on to the Royal Academy Schools where he won the Gold Medal and Travelling Scholarship. From 1887 to 1890 Frampton undertook further study and work at the studio of Antonin Mercie in Paris.
Frampton returned to England and took up a teaching position at the Slade School of Art in 1893.
His most notable works of public sculpture are the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Palace Gardens and the Edith Cavell monument that stands outside the National Portrait Gallery, London.
He was married to the artist Christabel Cockerell and had one son, the painter and etcher Meredith Frampton.
